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CVE-2015-2783

MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5.8 · Memory corruption
5.8CVSS MEDIUM

Summary

ext/phar/phar.c in PHP before 5.4.40, 5.5.x before 5.5.24, and 5.6.x before 5.6.8 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service (buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted length value in conjunction with crafted serialized data in a phar archive, related to the phar_parse_metadata and phar_parse_pharfile functions.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)9%

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Affected products we track (1)

PHP

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php ↗